Admiral Togo: Nelson of the East

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Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was once born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his place of birth by British warships. As the legendary “Silent Admiral”, he was once at the vanguard of innovations in warfare, pioneering the Japanese use of up to date gunnery and wireless communication. He’s easiest referred to as “the Nelson of the East” for his resounding victory over the Tsar’s navy within the Russo-Japanese War, but he also lived a remarkable life: studying at a British maritime college, witnessing the Sino-French War, the Hawaiian Revolution, and the Boxer Uprising. After his retirement, he was once appointed to oversee the education of the Emperor, Hirohito. This new biography spans Japan’s sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the 20th century. Delving beyond Togo’s finest hour on the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a diffident Japanese sailor in Victorian Britain, his reluctant celebrity in The united states (where he was once laid low by Boston cooking and welcomed by his biggest fan, Theodore Roosevelt), forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa, and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero.
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